As businesses in San Francisco's Financial District continue to struggle to bounce back, the area getting an unexpected boost from an unlikely source: its drag queens.
"I take three deep breaths, and I sort of do a hop and then I douse myself in perfume and I hit it," he said.
Instead, he was at a flower shop on Market Street. It was in that flower shop that he blossomed into his alter ego, Bobby Friday. that is working to help San Francisco's downtown that is still reeling from a devastating pandemic and a growing remote economy. a month-long series of drag pop-up events called Drag Me DowntownRobbie silver, the group's executive director, said the idea is to bring foot traffic into an area beyond it's 9-5 rush.
"It's really important for us to support the queer community and just to bring livelihood to the area," she said. "The drag community has just been under attack throughout the country, and we are putting drag culture and drag art on a pedestal to highlight them," Silver said.
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